Meet the Other Humans Living in Your DNA

There's another human species inside you — and science can prove it. All research and sources are linked below. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 There's another human inside you 1:34 Meeting the cousin 3:12 A day with Oru 5:15 The secret in your DNA 7:28 Where did they go? 8:51 The cousin inside you 📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES: ▸ Neanderthal DNA in living people — Smithsonian https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/... — people with ancestry outside Africa carry around 2%. ▸ Traces in Africa too — Princeton (2020) https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/0... ▸ When they disappeared — Oxford/Tübingen: gone by about 40,000 years ago, after sharing Europe with us for up to 5,400 years. ▸ The "hunched brute" myth — Inverse https://www.inverse.com/article/53560... ▸ Brains slightly larger than ours — SAPIENS https://sapiens.org/biology/neanderth... ▸ Red hair — Max Planck Society https://www.mpg.de/550811/pressReleas... ▸ The first glue, 200,000 years ago — Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... ▸ Cooked plants in their teeth — ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... ▸ The rodeo-rider myth — Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc... ▸ Shanidar 1 — Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc... ▸ Eagle-talon jewellery, 130,000 years old — Sci.News https://www.sci.news/archaeology/scie... ▸ Could they speak? — Kebara 2 hyoid study (University of Wollongong): a throat bone consistent with speech; still debated. ▸ The 2022 Nobel Prize — Technology Networks https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn... ▸ Oase 1 — Archaeology Magazine https://archaeology.org/news/2015/05/... ▸ Denny — Sci.News https://www.sci.news/genetics/denisov... ▸ Denisovan DNA in Papua New Guinea — Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... ▸ Tibetans and high altitude — Archaeology Magazine https://archaeology.org/news/2014/07/... ▸ Feeling more pain — Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... ▸ COVID-19 risk — Max Planck Society https://www.mpg.de/15451493/neanderta... ▸ The oldest wooden wheel, about 5,000 years old — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljublja... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👣 PEOPLE & SITES IN THIS VIDEO: ▸ Svante Pääbo — The geneticist who read DNA from 40,000-year-old bones and found the Neanderthals never fully left. ▸ Shanidar 1 — Blind in one eye, one arm withered, one foot broken, and yet he lived for years. Someone fed him. Someone cared. ▸ Oase 1 — A 40,000-year-old man whose great-great-great-grandparent was a Neanderthal. ▸ Denny — A girl with a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father: proof that different kinds of humans became family. ▸ The Denisovans — A species we know mostly from a finger bone and a few teeth, yet their DNA lives in millions of people today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 Animation by ReThought #neanderthals #humanevolution #dna #history #science #prehistory #denisovans #anthropology #archaeology #animation #education #rethought